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Look forward to the day that orange shit stain is dead. Hopefully tonight.
Americans: Just imagine the White House is an elementary school…
Mate, can you imagine president Vance? Careful what you wish for.
If Vance were president Republican spines would start to grow back. Trump's hold over Republicans is a major part of the problem.
Vance might not be The Guy, but I disagree that removing Trump solves the problem at all. He's more like the most prominent symptom.
Before 2016, Trump in the minds of most Americans was some washed up reality show star from the 90s. He is, and has always been, an ugly, uncharismatic, racist piece of shit. If the conservative propaganda machine can propel this artificially colored, barely articulate moron to the top, they can propel just about anyone. The only caveat is that whoever they propel has to be willing to do anything, to destroy any international relationship, to flip flop at the drop of a hat, and to not ask questions outside of "how will this benefit me?"
Vance might be a selfish, uncharismatic idiot in his own right, but unlike Trump he does have two braincells to rub together. Fox, Newsmax, Rogan, and the like might not be willing to throw themselves behind that. But there's no shortage of vaguely remembered, self-absorbed celebrities who will be willing to take his place. Think President Oz, or heck, maybe Hulk Hogan would throw his hat in the ring.
Point is, as long as we have a populace that disrespects education and science, and that's completely unmotivated to participate in our gerrymandered and unrepresentative FPTP system, the propaganda machine will always churn out a shittier asshole next year. The worst of us will hand them the reigns, and Republicans will follow that asshole without question. Trump isn't as special a case as people want to believe. We've been on this trajectory for decades.
You need to find a way to get the non-voting 35% of the eligible voter population to actually vote.
And also vote in their own interest. Near as I can tell, their lack of belief in the system stems from their lack of interest in learning about it as much as its actual flaws. One of the big strengths of conservatives is drawing in first time voters who don't know jack about squat by playing on their fears--as racist and stupid as those fears may be.
Yeah but there's no reason that trick needs to be a fascist exclusive.
I’m comfortable with Vance also eating a face full of patriotic American made lead.
I don’t think Vance has the charisma or character to keep the MAGA interests from eating each other and him.
Yeah.... This.
Don't get me wrong, if/when Trump dies, it'll be a day that I'm a bit happier, but if he dies during his presidency, I know he'll be immediately replaced by someone who is either just as bad or worse.
My only hope with Vance if he takes on the job, is that he's such a fucking bootlicker that hopefully he'll spend too much time sucking off corporate interests that he can't do too much more damage than Trump has already done.
It's possible, however unlikely, that someone will convince Vance to do the right thing for the wrong reasons (he definitely won't do it for the right reasons), because someone else told him too.... I have no illusions that he wouldn't come up with the idea himself. He's just not that bright in my mind.
One hopes Vance doesn’t have the same vice grip on the balls of the Republican Party that Trump does.